{"id":230168,"date":"2026-04-01T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:00:12","slug":"linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux updates were painfully slow until I switched one setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/\">Linux updates were painfully slow until I switched one setting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-01 16:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a very specific kind of irritation (if anyone&#8217;s interested, I call it penguin-rage) that comes from watching a Linux update crawl. Not fail, not crash, or even complain. Just sit there, inching forward like it\u2019s negotiating each package individually. My system wasn\u2019t broken. The internet was solid. Streaming, downloads, Docker pulls, all fine. But the moment I ran apt update followed by apt upgrade. Everything slowed to a polite, almost passive-aggressive pace. Like Linux was saying, \u201cWe\u2019ll get there \u2026 eventually.\u201d And for the longest time, I just accepted it. Because updates are supposed to take time, right? Spoiler warning: No, they\u2019re not.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"the-problem-wasn-rsquo-t-my-system\">\n                        The problem wasn\u2019t my system<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"slow-updates-were-caused-by-a-poor-mirror-choice\">\n            Slow updates were caused by a poor mirror choice<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0Roine Bertelson\/MakeUseOf<\/p>\n<p>Linux doesn\u2019t download updates from one central server. It pulls from mirrors, which are copies of the same packages hosted all over the world. In theory, this is great. Redundancy, speed, resilience. Very clever. In practice, your system quietly picks one and hopes for the best.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you get lucky and land on a fast, local mirror that feels instant. Other times, you end up stuck with something halfway across the planet that\u2019s either overloaded, underpowered, or just having a bad day. And your system will happily keep using it forever, like it\u2019s in a long-term relationship. That\u2019s what happened to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux updates were painfully slow until I switched one setting https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-updates-were-painfully-slow-until-i-switched-one-setting\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-01 16:30:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/03\/update-mirror-fi.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-230168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230170,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230168\/revisions\/230170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}